So avant garde and ahead of its time that we still haven’t gotten to the point where it’s actually good
these archive links are the ONLY way to watch it online, disney buried it.
Buried treasure
Hoskins and Leguizamo were apparently drunk from start to finish.
I watched it a few years ago, and it’s bad, but nowhere near as bad as you’d think.
There’s an interesting fan edit on the web with a bunch of deleted scenes added. I guess Disney came in at the last minute ( like literally a few days before shooting) and butchered the script to make it more kid friendly. The actors and director were understandably pissed and pushed back but Disney always wins. They ended up with all these gritty looking sets and a kind of goofy dialog that just didn’t match.
It’s a bummer because it seems like there were some really cool ideas in the original story.
Jack Black was really fun as Bowser.
And where’s the comparison?
The Boll films were shameless tax schemes, but yeah the mario film was cool.
Interesting enough, the old Super Mario movie was the premise of the Some More News movie. It’s a little out there and references past episodes of SMN, but when they start landing the references and comparisons, it blows your mind!
To be honest, I love both films. Bob Hoskins was the perfect personification of Mario, IMHO. John Leguizamo, not so much, but I still enjoyed his portrayal of Luigi.
The old one makes Mario’s love interest a plus size black woman. The new one doesn’t have any nonwhite characters except for extras and fantasy creatures.
The Mario Brothers are supposed to be Italian American.
Peach has already been established as blonde and white.
Who else is a main character that you wanted to be non-white? All the other main characters, from what I remember, are animal-like creatures.
The 90s movie worked on the same source material as the 20s movie, in a more conservative environment, and still managed better representation in terms of onscreen characters. Deciding not to have any racially diverse characters because everyone’s a raceless cartoon is a choice the writers made, and they could have chosen differently.
Why are you ignoring the 30+ years of character design and refinement that went on in the Mario universe between the two films?
Shouldn’t your beef be with Nintendo, anyways?
The Mario Brothers are supposed to be Italian American
What are you even trying to say? Historically yes Italian Americans faced racism, descrimination and a strong lack of representation but that really hasn’t been a problem for most Italian americans about a hundred years
I’m saying the race of those characters has been well established beyond just a “colour scheme” or arbitrary choice
Goombaaaaaah!-
I turned off the new one when they got to the Rainbow Road, can’t say I enjoyed it up to that part but that’s when I felt it was an advertisement not a story
So, The Wizard part 2: Nintendo Boogaloo?
What was it an ad for?
It’s really subtle, but there are little ads for all manner of Nintendo products hidden all over the … Super Mario Brothers movie.
“Genociding” isn’t a word.
everything that people say is a word, and if it’s said enough it ends up in the dictionary. unless you’re editing a professional paper for grammar and spelling there’s no point to be made here. everything people say is a word. you understood what they meant, didn’t you?
I guess the years of learning grammar and being tested on it were waste, then. As long as I can barely glean intent, then its fine.
thenthanitsit’s fine.Sorry, rolled Chaotic Evil on my comment reply alignnment chart.
Thanks for the correction.
See how easy that is?
As long as I can barely glean intent, then its fine.
This sounds like reductio ad absurdum from a monoglot. Try living in a culture where you need a foreign language and you’ll begin to see the levels of nuance in understanding speech.
Verbing weirds language.
I’m not sure if you need to specify “capitalistic”. Everyone is “capitalist”
Everyone is “capitalist”
What.
